Monday, October 14, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
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by Jeff MacNelly
Guerrillas, legislators meet
Leaders try to end apartheid
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— White opposition legislators and
exiled black guerrilla chiefs said
Sunday their meeting had produced
agreement on “the urgent need to
dismantle apartheid and establish a
united, non-racial, democratic South
Africa.” But they said they disagreed
on how to do it.
A joint statement issued by lead
ers of the opposition Progressive
Federal Party and executives of the
outlawed African National Congress
described a “friendly and cordial at
mosphere” in nine hours of talks in
Lusaka, Zambia.
The statement reported differ
ences of opinion on the roles of
armed struggle and negotiation in
bringing about change.
The ANC has said it plans to step
up a campaign of violence to under
mine white-minority rule. The Pro-
i gressive Federal Party opposes the
use of force. The PFP is seeking to
arrange a national convention on
South Africa’s future, but the
statement said the ANC did not see
“at the present moment a climate
i under which the ANC could con
sider a negotiated resolution of the
crisis.”
The meeting was the second at
tempt in a month by whites outside
the government to directly involve
the ANC, which says it has the sup
port of most of South Africa’s blacks,
in talks on the country’s prolonged
crisis.
The Progressive Federal Party-
ANC statement w-as issued in Lu
saka, where the talks were held Sat
urday.
In Pretoria, South Africa’s capital,
national police headquarters said
one black man was killed and 12
people were injured in 15 incidents
of arson and stone-throwing and a
hand grenade throwing Saturday
night and early Sunday.
A police statement said five peo
ple were arrested in violence stem
ming from opposition to apartheid,
South Africa’s system of enforced
racial separation under which 5 mil
lion whites deny the vote to 24 mil
lion blacks.
Police said they found the charred
body of a black man at Duncan Vil
lage, near the Indian Ocean port of
East London. More than 750 people,
neat ly all blacks, have been killed by
police and other blacks in 13 months
of racial unrest.
The governing National Party
government refuses to talk with the
ANC unless it renounces violence, a
condition it rejects.
The statement by the legislators
and the ANC said both groups fa
vored the release of political prison
ers including former ANC leader
Nelson Mandela, who is serving a
life sentence for plotting sabotage.
Botha has said he will release the
popular black leader only if he re
nounces violence, something Man
dela ref uses to do.
“Apartheid lies at the heart of the
present crisis,” the joint statement
said. “Both sides are deeply con
cerned to conserve the human and
natural resources of our country and
to remove one of the most important
factors affecting the stability of the
whole southern African region.”
Both sides said the talks were
“very useful and, if necessary, it
would happen again.
NEW YORK — Wool, used by
prehistoric man to keep warm, is be
ing used by modern man to keep
cool also. And the oldest fabric in
human history is creating today’s lat
est fashions, adds Mike Goldsmith of
the Wool Bureau Inc.
The bureau is the U.S. branch of
the International Wool Secretariat,
which is involved in fashion forecast
ing and influencing styling trends. It
develops and tests new wool prod
ucts and processes to help make the
fabric popular in warm as well as
cool weather.
“Early woolen fabrics were heavy,
warm and rough in texture,” said
Goldsmith. “Although Arabs did
swathe themselves in wool caftans to
protect themselves from the sun,
most people wore wool to keep
warm. This is no longer the case.”
Wool apparel has made great
strides since 4()0() B.C., when Baby
lonians first wove wool garments for
trade or when Romans in 45 A.D.
wore wool togas. Goldsmith points
out.
Refinements in technology have
created a wide variety of wool f abrics
that have revolutionized both men
and women’s wear, he said, citing
the new worsted fabrics as light
weight, soft material that can be
_ worn 10 months a year.
Current production methods
have refined wool so that not only do
the newest wool fabrics offer versa
tility in styling, but they are durable
and soil resistant and comfortable
when it is hot outside and air condi
tioned inside. Goldsmith says.
“The development of electronic
knitting in the 20th century has
made possible more design and styl
ing flexibility in wool fabrics,” Golds
mith notes. “Warmth is only one of
wool’s many qualities.”
Storyteller: Art of telling tales being revived
Associated Press
TEMPE, Ariz. — Dennis R. Freeman, a 38-'
■year-old from Chino Valley, tells tales for a liv-
r n g-
! Although storytelling in Arizona still is in its
infancy, he says that nationally, in the last 10
■ years, the ancient art of storytelling has experi-
lenced a renaissance.
| Freeman was here recently with stories of
[peace and reconciliation, stories “about the va-
Irious ways, ingenious ways, that people and
{groups are able to resolve seemingly irresoluble
[conflicts . . . stories to make people feel good
[about themselves as human beings."
Freeman did not start work as a storyteller un-
itil two years ago.
He flew helicopters during the Vietnam War,
[and then he worked for 10 years as a private pi-
I ' (>t '
; A helicopter crash ended his piloting career in
[1981 and left him with a broken back and both
I arms shattered.
But, he says, he knew his life wasn’t over.
During his 2 l A-month hospitalization, Free
man remembered an intriguing article about the
National Association for the Preservation and
Perpetuation of Storytelling, an organization
based in Jonesboro, Tenn., with about 2,500
members nationwide, he says.
He sold a typewriter and a chain saw to raise
money for a flight to the organization’s annual
conference, where five professional storytellers
performed.
“It was love at first hearing,” he says. “I be
came very immersed in it then and I’ve never
come up for air since. In fact. I’m going deeper.”
Some of Freeman’s stories are about his real
experiences and others are pure fantasy. Free
man also tells folk tales from different countries.
Some of his stories are for children.
“When I do stories for adults, the stories have
a more complex story line,” he says.
His stories can last anywhere from one minute
to 25.
And they are about a variety of subjects, he
says, “as many themes as there are human expe
riences."
Storytelling is important, Freeman says.
“It’s a means that the human race passes on its
acquired wisdom,” he says. “It’s important for us
- to learn our grandfather’s grandfather’s grand
father’s lessons about life.
When people listen to stories they use their
imaginations — something television doesn’t re
quire of them, Freeman says.
Besides all that, he says, “it’s fun.”
Good storytelling is not necessarily attributed
to timing, articulation or voice. Freeman says.
“I think a storyteller having an open heart to
life is the key,” he says. “The stories have to have
substance, depth, that comes from the storyteller
to be really effective.”
And there’s really no end to it, he adds:
“It’s something I can go on and on with until
I’m an old man and just touch the surface, be
cause you have all the experiences of the entire
world to draw upon.”
Temporary work is permanent job for many
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Whether it’s to
[tide them over until the next acting
assignment, give them something to
do in retirement or provide the f ree
dom to take time off to spend with
■their children, workers who have
held full-time jobs are switching to a
life as permanent temporary em
ployees, industry officials report.
[ “Many people who either want to,
(for have to, be a part of the work
force are opting for career tempo-
nary positions,” said Diane Ford, na
tional field manager for Dunhili Per
sonnel System, a major network of
recruiting specialists. “They have the
option of working as much as 40
hours per week or less if they so de
sire.
“The number of such people,
both men and women, has skyrock
eted, and with businesses gearing up
for the Christmas season, full-time
temps will be needed more than
ever,” she added.
Carolyn Hudson, Albuquerque,
N.M., has been a permanent temp
for one year, following a nine-year
stint as a full-time secretary. She has
no plans to return to full-time work,
saving the full-time temp concept
fits her lifestyle.
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held between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. with a lunch break
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Dallas
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Ft. Worth
General Dynamics
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Houston
IBM
Austin
IBM - Federal Systems Division
Clear Lake
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Grand Prairie
MCI Telecommunications
Richardson
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Round Rock
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Dallas
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Houston
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